Re: [cobbler-devel] How to do cobbler import with --available-as using http/ftp

[James Cammarata]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Parthasarathy, Balaji (BCS,
Cupertino, USA) <balaji.parthasarathy(a)hp.com&gt; wrote:
>  I’m running cobbler 2.0.11 on F16.
>
>  When I try to cobbler import as follows:
>
>  cobbler import --path=/tmp/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Local
>  --name=RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Remote --arch=x86_64
>  --available-as=http://<some_server>/distros/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64
>
>  the command doesn’t do anything. The below command works.
>
>  cobbler import --path=/tmp/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Local
>  --name=RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Remote --arch=x86_64
>
> --available-as="nfs://<some_server>:/var/www/html/distros/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64"
>
>  How do I do the same with http? 
Do you have the ISO mounted at /tmp/RHEL6.2-Server-x86_64-Local?

When you use --available-as, you need to still have some files locally
if the path is HTTP or FTP. Download the ISO and mount it, and
--available-as means the files will not be copied from the ISO to
locally.